The Cold War & the Power of Defence Spending
Warfare
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Are We Talking About Cuts in Defence Spending Away From Nuclear Warheads, Missile Systems?
Is there a conscious consideration by the nixon administration that they need to get this bloody budget under control, because if not, it could destroy the american economy in the longer run. And over spending on nuclear weapons as well, something perhaps we see with the soviet union and the collapse of sovietunion at the end of the eighties. It's a question. I think nixon is in a position where he doesn't want a defense budget in the ways that johnson had a defense budget,. meaning he didn't want to appear that he was building up America's military forces. But Nixon is not anti war, obviously. Figure he is not someone who is opposed to
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